Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — HIGHER EDUCATION. [ARTICLE]

HIGHER EDUCATION.

The Democrat is informed that some of the parties returning from the Goodland-Rensselaer high school football game at Goodland two weeks ago today, “swiped” a street lamp in Remington and brought it along with them. When they got along by the Catholic college, just south of Rensselaer, the lamp was thrown from the rig and smashed to pieces. The Remington marshal made a little investigation and came to the conclusion that Prof. Hiatt’s foot ball boys were the guilty parties. He wrote a letter here to the city marshal, enclosing a bill for the lamp and a firm request that the bill be paid or dire consequences would follow for some of the young knights of the gridiron. Our marshal presented the matter to Prof. Hiatt, we understand, and $5, the amount of the hill, was paid over in a few days and remitted to Remington’s marshal. Just who tbe guilty boys were is not made public, and special efforts have been made to keep the matter from the public, but the f%cts in the case are substantially as set out above. Another oil or gasoline street lamp is lying in the street here — on Cullen street —at this writing, and no one seems to know where it came from, as no lights of this kind have been in use here for many years. It is thought that perhaps some other of our neighboring towns have met with similar losses to Remington’s.